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A History of Costume Free FREE A HISTORY OF COSTUME PDF Carl Kohler,Karl Kohler,Emma Von Sichart | 463 pages | 01 Jun 1963 | Dover Publications Inc. | 9780486210308 | English | New York, United States Costume - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating A History of Costume. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Egypt, Babylon, Greece up through 19th-century Europe; based on surviving pieces, art work, much more. Includes many clear, measured patterns for reproducing historic costumes. Full text. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published June 1st A History of Costume Dover Publications first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A History of Costumeplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This A History of Costume is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of A History of Costume. Dec 02, Joy Pixley rated it liked it. This book covers clothing styles from antiquity to the 19th century. To give you an idea of how dry and academic the text is, the first English translation of this book was published in I have the black and white Dover edition, published in It is a no-nonsense reference book, and gives the impression to me, a rank amateur of being well-researched. I was mostly interested in the sections on ancient cultures up to about the 16th century, so I read the first pages or so and just s This book covers clothing styles from antiquity to the 19th century. I was mostly interested in the sections on ancient cultures up to about the 16th century, so I read the first pages or so and just skimmed through the illustrations for the last pages. He gives less than 70 pages from the ancient Egyptians to the Romans, but that's still more than I could find anywhere else. We get a bit on Teutonic and then straight onto Medieval Europe, and then it's Europe all the way. Apparently other parts of the world didn't have clothing; there's no mention here of Asia, for instance, which was disappointing. The illustrations are marvelous. He A History of Costume the types of clothing with sculptures, bas-reliefs, vase paintings, and the like, as well as photographs of authentic items of clothing found in bogs or graves, or saved and displayed in museums. I was most fascinated with how he reverse engineered the ancient clothing -- how did they get the specific sweeping folds shown in the sculptures, for instance. He includes many line drawings to help give visuals to his detailed descriptions which I liked and takes up lots of page space showing his ideas of patterns for recreating the clothes which A History of Costume helped clarify his description but were mostly useless for me. Why might you want to read this book? Good question. I wanted more insights into A History of Costume technologies and trends in clothing to give me worldbuilding ideas for my low-tech fantasy world. This book did that very well, although I would have liked more description of the reasons why various fashions changed the way they did. I expect to refer back to this book and its illustrations frequently as I describe how the various cultures in my fictional world dress at A History of Costume time periods. If you are instead hoping to actually recreate these costumes for reenactment purposes and are looking for patterns, I would look somewhere else first; especially for more recent historical time periods, A History of Costume seems that there are more detailed instructions out there. However, this was the best book I could find on ancient clothing styles -- if anyone knows of others in this area, let me know! As I mentioned, this is a dry and scholarly text. It gets repetitive in some descriptions and incomplete in others, and the organization is not always clear. The index is decent, which I appreciate. Not a "fun" read, but a useful one. Mar 20, Phair rated it really liked it Shelves: costume-history-and-fashion. One of my first costume books purchased while taking a costume class in college. I loved that it contained bits of patterns, line drawings and photographs of actual clothing pieces. I picked figure in this book- a 15th c German dress with ermine pendant sleeves. A year or so later I made a full size version of the same gown to wear to SCA events. My Kohler is A History of Costume marked and wobbly in A History of Costume binding but One of my first costume books purchased while taking a costume class in college. My Kohler is much marked and wobbly in its binding but it still brings back those good days when I first became interested in historic costume. Jun 04, Jenni rated it really liked it. This book is a must for people intersted in costuming. To someone who is not native english speaker, the academic text might be a bit hard to understand. The book is full of information and it sometimes feels that you are drowning in the river and need to put the book away to get a breath of fresh air. Still, the book is interesting, full of information and patterns and lovable pocket size edition is easily carried in your bag. Sep 07, Xandie rated it liked it Shelves: historynon-fiction. This was an interesting book that detailed the many different styles of clothing humans have worn around the world and throughout the ages. It includes many images and patterns to help explain the A History of Costume as well. Unfortunately, it seems as if you need to be a seamstress to understand everything the book is trying to tell you. Jun 11, Karin rated it liked it Shelves: aunt-susan-snon-fiction. Nifty resource, but I really didn't like how the author talked about women's clothing masking our "natural defects". Oct 27, James rated it liked it Shelves: artdiynon-fictionhistory. Black and white, does include patterns. Dec 04, Elisabeth rated A History of Costume liked it Shelves: costuming. Personally, not that great. I rather use something like Costume in Detail, or Years of Fashion, if you can find it. Sep 11, Alessandra rated it it was ok Shelves: textile-artcostumeclothingdress. Interesting, but his patterns are all based on supposition. Jan 12, Gerri George rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Definitely recommend it to writers who want to get the costume drama right. Recommended to Gerri by: Came across it in a used book store. Excellent resource for historical novels, especially sagas which span a hundred years. Feb 17, Thepaganpuzzler rated it it was amazing. One of those quintessential authorities; every constumer should own one! Jim rated it liked it Aug 02, Duke Sir Wegelswerth rated it it was amazing Dec 30, Larry Bell rated it liked it Jan 16, Nooor rated it it was amazing Feb 21, Josephine rated it it was amazing Jan 13, Anna rated it it was amazing May 22, Paul rated it really liked it Feb 04, Gilbert Gordon rated it liked it Dec 31, Trevor rated it really liked it Jan 30, Shannon rated it it was amazing Aug 02, LLC rated it it was amazing Feb 21, Liz rated it it was amazing Dec 05, A History of Costume The History of Costumes Costume is the distinctive style of dress of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch. The term also was traditionally used to describe typical appropriate clothing for certain activities, such as riding costumeswimming costumedance A History of Costumeand evening costume. Appropriate and acceptable costume is subject to changes in fashion and local cultural norms. This general usage has gradually been replaced by the terms "dress", "attire", "robes" or "wear" and usage of "costume" has become more limited to unusual or out-of-date clothing and to attire intended to evoke a change in identity, such as theatrical, Halloween, and mascot costumes. A History of Costume the advent of ready-to-wear apparel, clothing was made by hand. When made for commercial sale A History of Costume was made, as late as the beginning of the 20th century, by "costumiers", often women who ran businesses that met the demand for complicated or intimate female costume, including millinery and corsetry. Costume comes from the same Italian word, inherited via French, which means fashion or custom. National costume or regional costume expresses local or exiled identity and emphasizes a culture's unique attributes. They are often a source of national pride. In Bhutan there is a traditional national dress prescribed for men and women, including the monarchy. These have been in vogue for thousands of years and have developed into a distinctive dress style. The dress worn by men is known as Gho which is a robe worn up to knee-length and is fastened at A History of Costume waist by a band called the Kera. The A History of Costume part of the dress which is formed like a pouch, in olden days was used to hold baskets of food and short dagger, but now it is used to keep cell phone, purse and the betel A History of Costume called Doma.
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